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No home library is complete without the classics! H. G. Wells is a keepsake collection of the author''s greatest work to be read and treasured. He was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed - and fascinated - us with a frightening doctor''s island. He wrote of an…

Causing mass hysteria as listeners of its 1938 radio broadcast believed a Martian invasion of Earth really was taking place, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is perhaps the most famous novel of its genre. This 1898 story has spawned films, radio and television series and comic-book adaptions,…

"The War of the Worlds" is the science fiction classic that has entertained readers for decades. It is the story of the invasion of Earth by Martians and the ensuing conflict that results. With their death rays and giant killing machines the Martians pose a formidable enemy. Will humans…

H. G. Wells's "The Invisible Man" is considered to be one of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. It is the story of the scientist Griffen who discovers a serum that will turn his entire body invisible. The initial excitement over the possibilities quickly dissipates when Griffen,…

"The Time Machine" is one of the most loved science fiction novels of all time. H. G. Wells crafts a vivid and haunting picture of an earth some 800,000 years into the future. Written in the late 19th century, "The Time Machine" was the first novel about time travel and its impact on the science…

H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining the very term "time machine." The Time Traveler of this novella tests his time machine with a leap forward…

When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything has changed. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous…

Another visionary novel from the great science fiction writer H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau tackles the thorny issues thrown up when humankind plays God and explores notions of society and identity, bringing the mythical chimera - part human, part animal - into the age of science.

"The Island of Dr. Moreau" is the story of Edward Prendick, an Englishman who finds himself shipwrecked on an island in the South Seas. On the island he discovers the mad Doctor Moreau and a group of beastly creatures that are the result of the Doctor's experiments. "The Island of Dr. Moreau",…

Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke Commentary by Jules Verne and an anonymous reviewer from The Critic “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his…

The World Set Free is an H. G. Wells novel considered to foretell nuclear weapons. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that disaster was impending and knew no way of averting it. If world peace is to be attained…

"The War of the Worlds" is the science fiction classic that has entertained readers for decades. It is the story of the invasion of Earth by Martians and the ensuing conflict that results. With their death rays and giant killing machines the Martians pose a formidable enemy. Will humans…